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Computer imaging Options

  • April 25, 2012
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I am new to the Casper suit and wanted to know if it was ok to create my base OS image with the Apple disk utility application or do I have to use the Casper Composer application to do this.
If you are supposed to use Composer what are the advantages to using Composer instead of Disk Utility.

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  • Contributor
  • April 25, 2012

I use Apples utility to create both my base os image and my netboot image and it works like a champ.


dpertschi
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  • Contributor
  • April 25, 2012

The one upside to Composer is that it will omit certain machine specific system files that we used to write scripts to remove just prior to baking an image. Have a look at Preferences in Composer.


Chris_Hafner
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  • Jamf Heroes
  • April 27, 2012

Agreed. Composer will generally create a more efficient image for you to distribute. However, if you prefer to do it by hand then go right ahead.